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100 1 Smith, Jad,|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/
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245 10 Alfred Bester /|cJad Smith.
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264 1 Urbana :|bUniversity of Illinois Press,|c2016.
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490 1 Modern masters of science fiction
504 Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 Introduction Alfred Bester: The Insider's Outsider --
Chapter 1 Beginnings: Early Life and First Stories --
Chapter 2 Of Things to Come: The Astounding and Unknown
Stories -- Chapter 3 Comics, Radio, and the Return to SF -
- Chapter 4 The Eureka Years -- Chapter 5 Tiger, Tiger,
Burning Bright -- Chapter 6 Hiatus and Search for a New
Style -- Conclusion -- An Alfred Bester Bibliography.
520 "Alfred Bester's classic short stories and the canonical
novel The Stars My Destination made him a science fiction
legend. Fans and scholars praise him as a genre-bending
pioneer and cyberpunk forefather. Writers like Neil Gaiman
and William Gibson celebrate his prophetic vision and
stylistic innovations. Jad Smith traces the career of the
unlikeliest of SF icons. Winner of the first Hugo Award
for The Demolished Man, Bester also worked in comics,
radio, and TV, and his intermittent SF writing led some
critics to brand him a dabbler. In the 1960s, however, New
Wave writers championed his work, and his reputation grew.
Smith follows Bester's journey from consummate outsider to
an artist venerated for foundational works that influenced
the New Wave and cyberpunk revolutions. He also explores
the little-known roots of a wayward journey fueled by
curiosity, disappointment with the SF mainstream, and an
artist's determination to go his own way"--|cProvided by
publisher.
520 "Like Asimov and Heinlein, Alfred Bester (Dec 18, 1913-Sep
30, 1987) began his career in science fiction as a pulp
fictioneer and finished it as a Grand Master, but he
followed a far more curious path than either of his big-
name contemporaries. He focused on SF intermittently
during his nearly fifty years as a professional writer,
maintaining few ties with the field. He started his career
in SF and finished it there as well, but in between, he
kept to a pattern of voyage and return, putting SF aside
for two extended intervals, first to script comics, radio
mysteries, and teleplays and later to work as a magazine
columnist and editor. Bester's reputation today rests
primarily on a handful of widely reprinted stories and two
landmark novels from his most productive period in the
1950s: The Demolished Man (1953), an SF-murder mystery
hybrid that won the first-ever Hugo Award for Best Novel,
and The Stars My Destination (1957), a sleekly savage and
adult space opera that gained a cult following among
readers. For most of his career, Bester's reputation
remained that of an outsider. But over time and partly in
his absence, Bester's reputation grew into more than just
that of an outsider. Movers and shakers among later
generations of writers--Michael Moorcock, Samuel R. Delany,
Harlan Ellison, M. John Harrison, William Gibson, and
Bruce Sterling, among them--came to regard Bester's work
as pivotal to SF's development"--|cProvided by publisher.
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600 10 Bester, Alfred|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/
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